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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>NUMBERS</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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The Lord commands Balaam to bless Israel—He does so, saying: Who can count the dust of Jacob?  and, What hath God wrought!
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And</span> Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 15: 26.">seven</a> oxen and seven rams.
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And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on <i>every</i> altar a bullock and a ram.
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And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee.  And he went to <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB a bare hill.">an</a> high place.
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And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon <i>every</i> altar a bullock and a ram.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
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And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, <i>saying,</i> Come, curse me Jacob, and come, <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB denounce (also v. 8).">defy</a> Israel.
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How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?  or how shall I defy, <i>whom</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath not defied?
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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth <i>part</i> of Israel?  Let me die the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Death.">death</a> of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
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And Balak said unto <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Neh. 13: 2.">Balaam</a>, What hast thou done unto me?  I took thee to <sup>b</sup><a href="num/23/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 23: 5.">curse</a> mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed <i>them</i> altogether.
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And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath put in my mouth?
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And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
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&#182; And he brought him into <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB a lookout point.">the</a> field of Zophim, to <sup>b</sup><a href="num/23/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB the summit.">the</a> top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on <i>every</i> altar.
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And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet <i>the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></i> yonder.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
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And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him.  And Balak said unto him, What hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spoken?
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And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
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God <i>is</i> not a man, that he should <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lying.">lie</a>; neither the son of man, that he should <sup>b</sup><a href="num/23/19b" mark="b" type="C" title="Ex. 32: 14; Deut. 32: 36; Isa. 31: 2; Amos 7: 3 (3, 6); TG God, Perfection of.">repent</a>: hath he said, and shall he not do <i>it?</i> or hath he <sup>c</sup><a href="num/23/19c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 46: 11.">spoken</a>, and shall he not make it good?
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Behold, I have received <i>commandment</i> to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
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He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God <i>is</i> with him, and the shout of a king <i>is</i> among them.
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God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/22a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB a wild ox.">an</a> unicorn.
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Surely <i>there is</i> no enchantment against Jacob, neither <i>is there</i> any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
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Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat <i>of</i> the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
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&#182; And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
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But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> speaketh, that I must do?
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&#182; And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
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And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that <sup>a</sup><a href="num/23/28a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB overlooks the desert.">looketh</a> toward Jeshimon.
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And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
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And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on <i>every</i> altar.
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